BIB_ID
196181
Accession number
MA 14034
Creator
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886, sender.
Display Date
Amherst, Massachusetts, 1874.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 20.5 x 25.5 cm
Notes
Identity of recipient and year of writing from The Letters of Emily Dickinson, edited by Thomas H. Johnson; Dickinson resided exclusively at her home in Amherst during this period of her life.
Watermark: A PIRIE & SONS / 1871.
Watermark: A PIRIE & SONS / 1871.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Saying she believes "the sweetest thanks are inaudible" and remarking that flowers "are not quite earthly. They are like Saints ... Were the 'Great Crowd of Witnesses' chiefly Roses and Pansies there would be less to apprehend"; thanking Mr. Hills "for the lovely message," asking Mrs. Hills to tell the children that "the Acorns sell me Saucers still for little pies, but I have lent my only Wing to a lame Robin, so I cannot freight them", and sending love from her sister Vinnie.
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